SHANTY
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And so it was that I had grown
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Into a youth uncertain, thrown
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Amongst the lions and the lambs.
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To pass the time we watched the children dance.
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I used to come here when this place was a crypt.
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Now the music plays.
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Oh don't you sometimes wish they'd stick to the script
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As the local preacher says.
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Rain from heaven will blessings bring,
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Behold the harvest grown. R
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Ian from heaven falls down on you,
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But me, I feel alone.
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PREACHER (sympathetically)
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Alone.
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SHANTY
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Alone.
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PREACHER
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If they won't come to worship
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God in a church
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Something must be done.
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We have to instigate a nationwide search
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For a way to make it fun.
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Rain from heaven will blessings bring,
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Behold the harvest grown.
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SHANTY and PREACHER
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Rain from heaven falls down on you,
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SHANTY
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But me, I feel alone.
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Alone.
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Here now,
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What am I doing here now?
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Hear me,
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Why do you never hear me?
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Why do you never hear me?
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MARY DEE (as half-ghost)
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I'll always be here.
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I'll never leave you.
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I'll always be in your mind.
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Dreams of the future,
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Ghosts of the past left behind.
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WOMEN'S CHORUS
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(Ah)
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SHANTY
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Thought I had a vision
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Lying in a graveyard,
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Thought I heard a melody inside.
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Could it be the future,
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Speaking with the voice of those who died?
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Thought I saw a kingdom,
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Happiness and laughter,
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Somewhere for an innocent to play.
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Is there any justice?
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Do these things still happen in this way?
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MARY DEE
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Don't tell him no,
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It isn't fair.
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For he was told by those who know
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There was love everywhere.
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SHANTY
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Love everywhere.
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MARY DEE
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Now's the time to tell him,
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While his mother's crying.
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Break it to him gently as she weeps.
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Let him know his father
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Will be well looked after, where he sleeps.
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CHORUS (ghosts)
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He's sleeping amongst us.
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He's in our dreams.
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Don't worry. he's with us now.
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SHANTY
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Don't say it's so,
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It isn't fair.
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For I was told by those who know
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There was love everywhere.
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Alone.
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Movement III - Crypt
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Paul McCartney |